Anti-Christ
English
Proper noun
Anti-Christ or the Anti-Christ
- Alternative form of Antichrist.
- 1991 September 9, Amy Kuebelbeck, “Under Fire? : Is anti-Catholic sentiment increasing? Some say yes and declare they’re not going to take it anymore.”, in Los Angeles Times[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 January 2026:
- Fringe groups continue to publish hate literature, available in some L.A. religious bookstores. In May, anti-Catholic comic books were found on car windshields in Oceanside. Comics by Jack Chick Publications of Chino, Calif., say for example, that the Pope is the Anti-Christ.
- 2009 November 25, Nicholas D[onabet] Kristof, “The Religious Wars”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 May 2012:
- Fundamentalists fired volleys of Left Behind novels, in which Jesus returns to Earth to battle the Anti-Christ (whose day job was secretary general of the United Nations).
- 2020 May 30, Dorian Lynskey, “'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 May 2020:
- Some knowledge is also required to appreciate the parodic final line of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens (1990), in which the Anti-Christ is seen “slouching hopefully towards Tadfield”.